From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.

"I was captured from the first page, with this wry, melancholic and very funny trio of immigrant friends who have made their own small place in this world." - Susan Straight

Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize
"A lyrical meditation on memory and connectedness involving three generations of an Irish family..." Kirkus Reviews

"In her richly imagined new novel, "Trespass," Valerie Martin plunges the reader into the borderlands between opposing forces: youth and age, exclusion and privilege, alien and native son." San Francisco Chronicle

From one of England's most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning The History Boys, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading.